Reba Lenore Lemmon CROWL
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Family Sketch
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Reba's grandparents came from Ottwa, Ohio to Marion, Indiana. Her parents came from near Marion, Indiana. Reba's grandfather Radabaugh worked on the canal and also on oil rigs. Her father worked on the canal. She remembers two brothers, Ellsworth and Harley, who took her sister Kathleen to the Worlds Fair in 1932.

Reba walked two miles each way to County School #6 for the first two years of her schooling. The family moved again, and her father drove the three children and two other neighbors to Hamilton to school every day. Reba worked for a family in Auburn after she finished high school. They took her with their family to Florida for three months and she got paid $5.00 a week. After she and Lawrence were married they lived in Pleasant Lake, where Lawrence worked in the grain elevator. Connie Ruth was born there. Reba has worked in many local restaurants in the Steuben County area: Captain Cabin, Hamilton House and Pokagan Inn. She was a member of the Pleasant Lake Homemakers Club and has been a member of the Hamilton Homemakers Club for years. She also worked for the Department of Agriculture serving as an agent for Expended Food Nutritional Program for 12 years.2

REBA L. CROWL, 85, of Hamilton, died Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004, at Cameron Hospital, Angola. She was born Sept. 5, 1918, in DeKalb County. Surviving are a daughter, Connie Johnson, of Hamilton; sons, Charles Crowl of Hamilton, James Crowl of Angola; sister, Joyce Sutton of Hamilton; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Lawrence Crowl, who died Jan. 8, 2002. Service is 10 a.m. Monday at Weicht Funeral Home, 207 N. West St., Angola. Visitation is from 2 to 8 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home, with Eastern Star Service at 7:30 p.m. Burial at Hamilton Cemetery, Hamilton. Memorials to Pleasant Lake Baptist Church or Steuben County Community Education.

Published in The Journal Gazette and The News-Sentinel, (Fort Wayne, IN) - January 17, 20045